by Juliette | May 13th, 2012 | Latest News
I watched an amazing talent show on telly last night. Unusually the star of this show was not a dog or a lady with a surprisingly okay voice despite her age or looks etc etc. It was a 15 year old girl who I can guarantee will have spent a large proportion of her childhood in a room on her own for hours on end every day practising the cello. It was not raw talent that made me get down from the dinner table with my supper in my hands to kneel in front of the telly so as not to miss a note. Raw talent is just the start. It was the dedication, sheer hard work and committment combined with the passion that mesmerized me. Wow was she good. Her name was Laura van der Heijden and she played the Walton Cello Concerto. We shall be seeing more of her I’ve no doubt as she went on to win BBC Young Musician last night. More »
Tags: BBC Young Musician of the Year 2012, Britain's Got Talent, Syco's dog album
by Juliette | April 29th, 2012 | Current Projects, Latest News, Record Producing
Busy week coming up so we’ve enlisted the help of Grandparents to hold the fort at home. I hope it stops raining as occupying 2 year old toddlers progresses quickly from a favour to a lifelong debt if you are stuck indoors.
We’re meeting the powers that be at Syco for the first time which should be interesting and hopefully fruitful and also going into Decca and Warners about possible recording projects. Our home studio should be finished in a couple of weeks so it would be great to start work in it straight away. We’re also meeting some orchestras to finalize who will perform our new orchestral children’s piece The Great Enormo at next year’s Brighton Festival. Then there is the small matter of writing it to be addressed. More »
Tags: Decca, Singing in the rain, Syco, The Brighton Festival, The Great Enormo, Warners
by Juliette | April 21st, 2012 | Latest News
Sir Colin Davis
James has been working with Sir Colin Davis, the London Symphony Chorus and the London Symphony Orchestra this week rehearsing for 2 performances of Der Freischütz at the Barbican. The 2nd performance is tonight. Weber was apparently an amazing pianist although you hardly ever hear any of his piano works performed these days in the standard repertoire. This opera, however, has always been a favourite with audiences from the moment it received it’s 1st performance. The young Wagner was even inspired by it. More »
Tags: Der Freischutz, London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
by Juliette | April 9th, 2012 | Latest News, Singing
I’m looking forward to getting back into some more singing soon with some concerts coming up this summer including one with the Hallé Orchestra in July for the first time. Funny how when you’re madly working you desperately want to be at home, but once you’re at home more, you desperately want to be out working. Maybe that’s a Mum issue. I’ve posted dates and more info under the blog Concerts 2012. More »
Tags: Britten Sinfonia Associate Ensemble, Hallé Last night of the Proms
by Juliette | April 7th, 2012 | Performances, Singing
June 2nd, 7:30pm : The Queen’s Jubilee Proms Concert
Ten Tors Orchestra and University of Plymouth Choral Society, St Andrew’s Minster Church More »
Tags: The Queen's Jubilee Proms
by Juliette | March 29th, 2012 | Current Projects, Latest News, Twin news
Work-wise we are in the slow and frustrating ‘pipeline’ stage. We have a couple of films in the pipeline, a couple of albums in the pipeline etc etc which basically means lots of meetings about projects that might never happen, time-consuming budgets, pitches and so on.
Building-wise we are in the hideous “why did we buy it” stage. Our time is spent sorting out endless building nightmares with planners, engineers, buildings regs and architects who keep ‘forgetting’ their original estimates etc etc. We rather naively thought that 4 records in the top 15 and a film in 2011 would lead to lots of work in 2012 but like every other industry, it’s tough out there.
There is of course our composition “The Great Enormo” with Michael Rosen to be written but as it’s not being premiered until May 4th 2013 in the Brighton Festival (plug plug) it’s proving tricky to motivate More »
Tags: architects, autism, film soundtracks
by Juliette | March 7th, 2012 | Domestic Diva, Film, Latest News, Record Producing
Work started this week on our garage which is to be our home studio and guest room – all very exciting but rather daunting. More »
by Juliette | February 23rd, 2012 | Current Projects, Domestic Diva, Record Producing
Just had a meeting with a musical tv presenter about a possible album for kids. Would be nice to produce something decent in a market which seems to be bursting with irritating and cheap CDs. James and I struggle with a dilemma everytime we get in the car; do we stop the kids screaming and fighting with a CD or gnaw off our own arms with the irritation of having to listen to it.
On the home front, we’ve finally got a landline. It ‘s taken 3 weeks to get BT to simply do their job, meanwhile we’ve been put on hold for over 3 hours in total. The result of the phone line saga , move stress, box unpacking not to mention flatpack furniture hell, is we now have 2 yr old twins who walk round and round saying “Bollocks, bollocks, bollocks”. I blame James, he blames me. We both blame BT. More »
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